Top-quark mass effects in double and triple Higgs production in gluon-gluon fusion at NLO

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Maltoni, F ^a   Vryonidou, E ^a   Zaro, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Higgs Physics; QCD; Standard Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921047562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2014)079     Document Type: Article

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